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" I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved. "
John Waters
Bad
Father
Too
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" Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think. "
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" By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead. "
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" I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact. "
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" I like art. It's another way to rebel. "
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" I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained. "
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" They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again. "
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" Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny. "
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" I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves. "
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" My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble. "
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Education
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" 'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist. "
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" If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house; they haven't seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you're shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer. "
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You
Today
" I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind. "
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Mind
" Science fiction is something I never understood. "
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Science Fiction
Fiction
Never
" I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. "
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Columbus
Fall
Day
" I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I took it home, and I was, like, 12 years old or something. "
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Art
Gift
Old
" I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week. "
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Sometimes
Week
Night
" I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob. "
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Mind
Reason
Snob
" I didn't follow anybody's advice, really. "
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Advice
Really
Anybody
" Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want. "
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Want
Brand
Christmas
" I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy. "
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Sell
Love
Just
" Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making 'Cry-Baby,' David Nelson from 'The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.' I couldn't believe he was sitting in my living room. Certainly Patricia Hearst. Tab Hunter. A lot of the stars I've worked with, when I first got them. "
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" My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write. "
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Day
Perfect
" In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life. "
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" Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence. "
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Little
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" If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital. "
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Would
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" In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations. "
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Beginning
" I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job. "
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Money
Parents
Think
" For a meal out, my number one restaurant is Peter's Inn. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. Believe me, when it was Motorcycle Pete's, that was fun. I had my 30th birthday there. "
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Birthday
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Motorcycle
" Without obsession, life is nothing. "
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Obsession
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